Pascale Anderle graduated in pharmacy from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ). After gaining a PhD degree in life science from the ETHZ she then worked for a year at Covance CLS, Geneva in the field of clinical trials. Later, she moved to the USA for a postdoc experience in the lab of Wolfgang Sadee at UCSF San Francisco and OSU, Ohio concentrating on absorption and genomics in the intestine. Afterwards, she joined the groups of Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl and Michel Aguet as postdoc fellow at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), partially in collaboration with the Nestle Research Center (NRC). The focus of her studies were on mucosal intestinal immunity and colon cancer and the use of genomics and in silico analysis. Being granted an EU project she moved to to Istituto Oncologico della Svizzera Italiana (IOSI, Bellinzona) as junior group leader and then upon being invited to join a NCCR project to the University of Bern. During this period she was granted a CAS in applied statistics.
She is now a project coordinator for Statistics Online and the coordinator of the Master of Translational Medicine & Entrepreneurship of the SITEM/INSEL Foundation and the University of Bern. She participates in teaching activities at the University of Lausanne and ETHZ.

Contact
e-mail: Pascale.Anderle@HSeT.org
Phone:+41 21 692 58 69
Address: HSeT Foundation
Chemin des Boveresses 155
CH-1066 Epalinges
Switzerland

Rafaela da Silva holds a Diploma in Pharmacy from the State University of Londrina (Brazil) and a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Zürich. She published over 50 scientific articles in prestigious international journals, in the area of cardiovascular research, in the field of atherosclerosis, aneurysm, endothelial function and shear stress biomechanics.

Before she joined HSeT, she worked as Senior Scientific Project Manager and Head of the Master in Translational Medicine and Biomedical Entrepreneurship at sitem-insel School.

She worked at EPFL and Whiuri Cardiovascular Institute (Finland) as a scientist, Visiting Professor at the Department of Cardiology- Hopitaux Universitaires de Genève, and as an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). In January 2023, Rafaela joined HSeT as Senior Scientific Program Manager, in which she is actively involved in the Distance Learning Educational Programme in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (https://iagg-fge.org). Since October 2023, Rafaela also works as an e-learning Consultant for the distance learning Portuguese courses at the Word Intellectual Property Organization.

Contact
Tel.: +41 799344845
Email: Rafaela.dasilva@hset.org

Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl is emeritus Professor at the University of Lausanne, and was affiliated member of the Swiss Institute of Cancer Research (ISREC). He used to work on mucosal immunity and vaccinology. He was a co-founder of EuroVacc, a Foundation active in the development of HIV vaccines, He is a member of EMBO. He was the co- founder of OraVax, Inc, now part of Sanofi Pasteur. He was the Founder, with Michelle and Bernard Rossier of the HSeT Foundation in 2006.

Contact:
e-mail: Jean-Pierre.Kraehenbuhl@HSeT.org
Phone: +41 21 692 5856
Address: HSeT Foundation
c/o Center of Immunity and Infection (CIIL)
Chemin des Boveresses 155
CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland

Jozsef Zoltan KISS obtained his M.D degree at the Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary in 1979.  He was a research associate at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary from 1979 to1981, a  Research associate at the Department of Anatomy, University of Iowa, College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA  from 1981 to 1982, a  Visiting associate in the  Laboratory of Cell Biology, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA from 1983 to1984, a Research associate at the  Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary from 1985 to 1986, a Visiting scientist, Rudolf Magnus Institute, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1986.

In 1986, he joined the University of Geneva Medical School, first as a junior faculty member and in 2007 as a full professor, at the Department of Fundamental Neuroscience. He retired in 2018.

He was and still is interested in developmental mechanisms that are critical for neuronal migration and circuit formation in the cerebral cortex as well as the molecular control of neural progenitor migration with the aim to direct these cells to sites of injury to achieve structural repair.

Contact
e-mail: Jozsef.Kiss@unige.ch
Phone: +41 22 379 52 02
Address: UNIGE  Medical School

Dr. Walter Reith is an honorary professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva. He is currently active in the scientific advisory board of several nonprofit foundations offering research funding grants and research career prizes in biomedical sciences (Prof. Dr. Max Cloëtta Foundation, Private Foundation of the University Hospitals of Geneva, Swiss National Science Foundation) and is president of a nonprofit organization developing international online teaching programs in the health sciences (Health Sciences e-Training Foundation). He is also cofounder of a company – xSeedD – of which the mission is to develop novel early-stage drug-development programs. The bulk of his academic career was pursued at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva, where he was full professor of molecular biology and immunology, director of the department of Pathology and Immunology, and research group leader investigating the regulation and function of antigen presentation and antigen presenting cells in health and disease. He studied biology and received a PhD degree in molecular biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Geneva.

Contact
e-mail: Walter Reith
Address: Faculty of medicine, University of Geneva
1 rue Michel-Servet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland

Bernard Rossier is MD, emeritus professor, former director of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and former Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne. For more than thirty years, he led a research group working in the field of hypertension and he is the author of more than 200 publications in this field. He is the recipient of numerous international awards in the field of nephrology and hypertension. He is a member of EMBO, Academia Europaea, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. He is an Honorary Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is Dr. honoris causa from the Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris. He is co-founder of HSeT, member of the board and project coordinator in the field of pharmacology, toxicology and nephrology.

Contact
e-mail:Bernard.Rossier@Unil.ch
Address: HSeT Foundation
c/o Center of Immunity and Infection (CIIL)
Chemin des Boveresses 155
CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland